Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Three Worlds Meet: Europe, Africa and the Americas

The Gilder Lehrman Institute has announced that its latest issue of History Now is available:

Issue 25, September 2010: Three Worlds Meet: Europe, Africa and the Americas

The Institute is pleased to present the latest issue of History Now, a quarterly online journal for history teachers and students, available at this link.

Teachers responsible for a class in early American history often find themselves asking: When does American history begin? What does "America" include? The current issue of History Now takes the broadest approach to such questions, examining what historians call "The Atlantic World," four continents linked by the Atlantic Ocean. Our scholars look at conditions in England and the Americas before English colonization; they create a context for understanding Indian and African enslavement; and they examine the perils of traveling the waters that connect peoples of each continent to one another.